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'Fox & Friends' mistreats Elijah Cummings on IRS emails story
The Baltimore Sun ^ | April 18, 2014 | By David Zurawik

Posted on 04/19/2014 9:40:24 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

As I watched Tuesday while the anchors on “Fox & Friends” leveled unsubstantiated charges against Rep. Elijah Cummings as if they were facts, I couldn’t help thinking how much more dangerous Sen. Joe McCarthy might have been in the 1950s if there had been a show like this to amplify his reckless allegations.

The Fox News morning show was playing one of cable talk’s dirtier games, and the longtime Democratic congressman from Baltimore was its target for his role in the House IRS probe. The lightweight, smiley morning crew — Steve Doocy, Brian Kilmeade and Elisabeth Hasselbeck — were saying things no responsible anchors would. They were the kind of things that could seriously damage the reputation of an ideological foe.

(Excerpt) Read more at touch.baltimoresun.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: coverup; irs; teaparty; tyranny
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To: LeoWindhorse

No surprise here...Democrats never turn on other democrats.
There is no such word as DINO in democrat vocabulary.


21 posted on 04/19/2014 9:52:10 AM PDT by entropy12
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To: Chode

........hard at work....defending their right to be tyrants


22 posted on 04/19/2014 9:52:14 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill)
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To: BillT

SSShhhhhhhhh...

We should not be confusing them with facts.


23 posted on 04/19/2014 9:52:56 AM PDT by Delta Dawn (Fluent in two languages: English and cursive.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
I guess this 0bamatard has never hear Rustle Reid drone on and on from the Floor of the Senate making all sorts of unsubstantiated accusations.

It's an art form.

24 posted on 04/19/2014 9:54:00 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Volunteer
He's obviously just another sycophantic useful idiot.
25 posted on 04/19/2014 9:55:38 AM PDT by Fledermaus (Conseravtives are all that's left to defend the Constitution. Dems hate it, and Repubs don't care.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
I guess this 0bamatard has never hear Rustler Reid drone on and on from the Floor of the Senate making all sorts of unsubstantiated accusations.

It's an art form.

26 posted on 04/19/2014 9:56:03 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: American Constitutionalist

Is it just me, or should there have been a barf alert attached to this sob story about poor ol’ Elijah gettin’ mistreated by FNC? I wish I’d seen that. I didn’t know FNC had anyone with the stones to mistreat ANY democRAT.


27 posted on 04/19/2014 9:58:28 AM PDT by Tucker39 (Welcome to America! Now speak English; and keep to the right....In driving, in Faith, and in politic)
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I'd rather listen to 40 year old heavy metal.

Deep Purple-Mistreated

28 posted on 04/19/2014 10:01:15 AM PDT by csvset
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
For these who don't read the entire article, Zurawik doesn't absolve Cummings, he is critiquing Doocy and Fox & Friends:

After just four days of reporting and fact-checking the story, I don’t pretend to know all the facts. Overall, I am in no position to say whether Cummings behaved ethically.

But I do know there is no evidence that has been produced at this point for the accusations leveled against him as fact on “Fox & Friends” on Tuesday morning. I also know there was evidence available to “Fox & Friends” that Cummings’ staff could not have flagged True The Vote for the IRS.

29 posted on 04/19/2014 10:01:42 AM PDT by kristinn (Welcome to the Soviet States of Obama)
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To: Tucker39

He and the Democrat party are just smarting ( hurting ) from being caught with their hand in the cookie jar, that’s all this is.... Elijah getting caught being one of those individuals who had a part in going after conservative group with the IRS.


30 posted on 04/19/2014 10:03:54 AM PDT by American Constitutionalist
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

You now know just how far our country has fallen after reading this. One does hardly know where to start the criticism. Here’s the reason why this country will fail because “the people” like this idiot now approximate the majority & a nation is only as good or bad as its people.


31 posted on 04/19/2014 10:04:25 AM PDT by Digger
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To: stockpirate

If the internet had existed then, maybe the truth
would have gotten out and we wouldn’t be in the
mess we are today.

Joe was vindicated by Vernona.


32 posted on 04/19/2014 10:05:48 AM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: kristinn
But I do know there is no evidence that has been produced at this point for the accusations leveled against him as fact on “Fox & Friends” on Tuesday morning.

There is also no evidence that has been produced at this point that shows that President Bush lied about WMD. Yet that hasn't stopped Zurawik from insisting for a decade now that Bush lied. Ah, the Double-Standard of the Self-Anointed rears its ugly head once again.

33 posted on 04/19/2014 10:06:32 AM PDT by Hoodat (Democrats - Opposing Equal Protection since 1828)
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To: csvset
or 44 year old power trio Mean Mistreater Grand Funk Railroad
34 posted on 04/19/2014 10:09:36 AM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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To: Mears

bfl


35 posted on 04/19/2014 10:10:15 AM PDT by Mears
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Think pelosi’s unsubstantiated charges against all republicans that they want the poor to remain poor, and who would be for amnesty if it were for “the Irish,” or Reid and his “domestic terrorists.”

Hard to feel sorry for Cummings, whose corruption has been on display for some time now.


36 posted on 04/19/2014 10:10:16 AM PDT by DPMD
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

37 posted on 04/19/2014 10:12:11 AM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: entropy12

yep , any lying scum will do .....


38 posted on 04/19/2014 10:12:22 AM PDT by LeoWindhorse
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I stopped reading at the part that said “Baltimore Sun.”


39 posted on 04/19/2014 10:18:43 AM PDT by KevinB (Barack Hussein Obama: Proof-positive that affirmative action does not work.)
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To: kristinn

” actually shows is Cummings staffers asking for “publicly available information” on True The Vote. That would be information available to anyone.

And the emails from the IRS show that executives there triple-checked to make sure only such information was included.”

Is this true? Still, even if publicly available, he still could have been pointing the finger!


40 posted on 04/19/2014 10:22:52 AM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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